Source: Ventures Africa
Motivated by a group of bio-medical, engineering and business students from Newcastle University, women and teenage girls in rural Dufatanye in Rwanda, are beginning to adopt the use of banana made sanitary pads.
Source: Footprint to Africa
Five non-profit organisations in Kenya have received $50,000 each from Microsoft as part of the Upgrade Your World initiative, a year-long program that celebrates people and organisations doing great things.
Source: All Africa
The ANC Women's League has thrown its support behind protesting students, who it says are showing "courage and thirst" for education
Source: All Africa
The new G20 engagement group linking gender equality and growth can build on growing commitments to expand women's participation in the workforce.
Source: All Africa
Giving women the option of using contraception tailored to their individual circumstances is vital to increasing birth control in developing countries, an event heard last week.
Source: All Africa
For many women in Mandera County - a hard to reach, insecure and arid part of North Eastern Kenya - the story of life from childhood to adulthood is one about sheer pain and struggle for survival.
Source: All Africa
Rural women have been urged to engage in other economic activities instead of solely relying on agriculture for their development. Oda Gasinzigwa, the minister for Gender and Family Promotion made the call on Saturday during celebrations to mark the International Day for Rural Women in Gicumbi District.
Source:The Nation Online
Despite producing 50 per cent of the world's cassava, Nigeria exports less than one per cent of its produce, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has said.
Source:All Africa
Ahead of End Poverty Day, new World Bank Group report highlights progress and challenges, calls for ambitious efforts to collect data
Source: Foot Print 2 Africa
Five non-profit organisations in Kenya have received $50,000 each from Microsoft as part of the Upgrade Your World initiative, a year-long program that celebrates people and organisations doing great things.
Source: Premium Times
The Nigeria Country Director, African Development Bank, Ousmane Dore, said Nigerian women contribute close to 70 per cent of agricultural workforce yet get less of accruing returns.
Source: The New Times
Hundreds of local women traders and exporters will benefit from a new programme under TradeMark East Africa (TMEA) that seeks to promote trade and support women-owned businesses in the region.
Source: All Africa
The vice governor of the central Huambo Province for social and political matters, Guilherme Tuluca, last Saturday in Calima commune, Huambo Municipality, said that rural women are fundamental in the process of boosting the agricultural sector, which in turn is a key element in the current diversification programmes of the country?s economy.
Source: All Africa
October is viewed globally as the breast cancer awareness month and it is in regards to this that a group of three students from Makerere University in Uganda have developed a new technology that detects breast cancer cells and stops the spread of the disease.
Source: All Africa
President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma on Friday October 16 assured representatives of the parliamentary female caucus of the Republic of Sierra Leone House of Parliament of government's continued commitment to ensure women's participation in the post-Ebola recovery programme.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Women farmers in western Cameroon are leading the way in commercial rice production, benefiting from new seeds and marketing opportunities that are helping them cope with climate stresses and provide for their families.
Source: African Brains
The African Development Bank (AfDB) hosted an inaugural Innovation Weekend at its headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, from October 9-11. The goal: to find technology-led solutions from West Africa to better the lives of women and youth.
Source: All Africa
A painting in which President Jacob Zuma's genitals are depicted is distasteful and degrading to women, the ANC said on Tuesday.
Source: Relief
Secretary-General Urged to Initiate Revised Strategy with Aim of Doubling Number of Women in Peacekeeping Operations in Next Five Years
Source: All Africa
The Ministry of Health in collaboration with UNFPA and other partners has launched a "Family Planning Week" in various communities in Montserrado County, distributing contraceptives, including condoms, pills, and injections, among others to teenage girls, students and young mothers to avoid unwanted pregnancy.